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CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY.

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TOTAL MILEAGE 21,000.

IS NOT to every com pany in the world that it is kivan to conduct, rail- road, steamship, hotel, mining, Sarming, realty, and other bi jiness, send the inclusion of all these in the programme of its far-flung inter-

Vier at Montreal, the Royal York at Toronto (largest hotel in the British Empire) the. Saskatchewan at Regina, Palliser at Calgary, Banff Springs Hotel, and' Chateau Lake, Louise in the Rockies, Van- ouver Hotel at Vancouver, 'und the Empress at Victoria, are among the

bat important

Expenditure.

It is the largest privately owned concern in the British Empire and one of the largest in the world. An idea of its expenditursa is afforded by the facts of Its outlay in 1929. In order to improve service and

exts, sets the Canadian Pacific Rail-upply its patrons with the latest way in a special class when the word "railways" comes up for classifica- tion.

were necessary for such interior furnishings as upholstery, chairs, curtains, etc. Furthermoré, over, $1,700,000 was allotted to the add- ing of modern improvements to existing cars and, locomotives.

improvements in rolling stock, the Company built and purchased in, that year 116 passenger cars, 9,400 freight cars and 30, locomotives in- Primarily a railroad company, its volving a total expenditure of activities to-day cover thousands of $14,238,000, in addition to which niles of territory in Canadh and inappropriations exceeding $200,000 foreign lands and on the high sens. Yet these wildly divergent fields of endeavour all find their fountain- head in Montreal, where the com pany has its head-offices, and are, essentially, children of the same parent. Be the individual a steward on à trans-Pacific liner; a clerk, In the Toronto freigh; offees; 'a brnke Pa on the crack "Trans Canada" -express or à departmental head with

the services of hundreds of ployees at his beck, the inevitable

The Great Connaught Tunnel. In the ten years referred to the Canadian Pacific Rallway has rock ballasted more than 2,000 miles of railway, it has increased the weight of rail and has block-signalled over 1300 mies; also It has increased its rail, mileage by almost 2,500 miles which a few years ago would have been considered a great system,

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- HOTELS.

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outright or is interested in hotels. from the Maritime Provinces right- neurs the Duminlon to Victoria.. Starting with the Lord Nelson at Halifax in which the Canadian Pacific has a large interest, there is a the famoua Algonquin Hotel at St. of resort journey in the good old. Andrews-by-the-Sea,

golfers from all over the continent, coaching daya was measured

and hotela at Digby and io. bo by thens where "good erected at Kentville and Yarmouth, accommodation" was a fact as well and the Admiral Beatty Hotel at. as a precept, so to-day, when iron Saint ohne horses courae along steel highways, It is fitting that their alopping- places should be provided with first-class hotels.

Chateau Fruntenne.

Coming to Quebbe City there is the palatial Chateau Frontenac magnificently located above the St. Lawrence. It has 20 Ruites and 678 rooms with convention and ball rooms.

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Just such a policy has been deve loped by the Canadian Pacific Rail- way, the largest hotel-company in the Dominion of Canada, in its Montreal has the Place Viger great chain of hotels from Atlantic Hotel with 118 rooms and fa agala to Pacife, aligned to the high stan: of the French Chateau type of dard of efficiency and service architecture. characteristic of every branch and department of the world's greatest | privately-owned transportation ays

tem.

Coming to Toronto there Is the $16,000 000 Royal York hotel with, when the present addition-ls.com pleted, 1,156 rooms, and the largest" Banff Springs Hotel.

hotel in the British Empire: It Nor are these hostelries, merely will also have 58 suites and very stopping-places for travellers; they handsome convention and public are temporary homes for those who rooms. would visit the great places of Reaching Winnipeg the Bailway Canada, be they sockers after rustic has the Royal Alexandra Hotel beauties or men of affairs, whose conveniently located within easy dis- duties take them to the great in- tance of the business, shopping. dustrial and commercial centres of and theatrical districts of the city the great and growing Dominion. and ajacent to the Canadian Pacife The Empress, in Victoria, and Railway station with which it is

Emerald Lake,

C.F.R. standard governs his every movement whether of brain or brawn, to the best service of the travelling world...

Hotels and Mining. The chain of hotels dotted along the 16,055 miles of the Canadian Pacific's tracks In Canada ranks anung the finest in the world and are found in settings as beautiful and as widely diversfied as Switzer land's lake-studded mountains and

the Russian steppes,

As to mining, the company is the second-largest mining company

In

the Dominion, and

one

of the most Important in

in itself. It has built at Vancouver one of the most modern piers in the world for' ocean and coastal freight and passenger service. It has con- pleted construction and lining-of the i

the great Connaught Tunnel in Selkirk mountain at a cost of more than $8,000,000. It has borne its share of the cost of the great viaduct in Toronto. It has spent millions of dollars in enlarging, modernising, and strengthening its bridges and it has made the most conspicuous development through the efforts of Canadian engineers, in designing and constructing the largest and most powerful locomo- tives in the British Empire..

New Locomotives."

One aspect of its de- velopment is particularly in-

the world, while the thousands teresting to travellers, name-

any

of miles covered by its steaptly, the Improvement in tito ships establish ita claim as a marine rolling stock of the company in what | organisation, as the countless farms might be termed de luxe equipment throughout the country form a

over-night sleepers, Jounge and monument to its auricultural de compartment care, Indicating the velopment.

fact which all Canadians take pride The Canadian Pacific Railway in, namely that Canadian railwaya links the Atlantic and Pacific are determined that in equipment Oceans traversing the 3,000 miles they shall at least equal the between the two and running service and equipment in

country In through practically all the major other

the world. elties of Canada. According to the

Since the war the Canadian Pacific latest annual report of the company, Railway has built almost a complete total mileage is around 21,800, of new fleet, leaving only three vessels which 16,055 miles are in 'Canada. in service which were in operation

L'operates steamship lines on both at the outset of hostilities. oceans joining Canada with Europe on the East and with Japan and China on the West, and in the prin cipal cities of Canada, as well as the outstanding beauty spots in the Rocky Mountains and elsewhere, it Awns Hotels of which the Chateau Frontenac at Quebec, the Placo

New locomotives have been: de signed to give the Canadian farmer. and industrialist still more perfect train service. The new passenger equipment will set a new and high standard of service and comfort and one which no country in the world can better.

Vancouver Canadian Pacific. Railway Hotel, Vancouver, B.C.

"2800" LOCOMOTIVES.

The new 2800 class locomotives placed in service by the Canadian. Pacific Railway marked yet another. forward step In the history of tative power.

These locomotives, tan of which werd built for fant - passenger schedules, are of the Hudson type and in their speed, power and efficiency, represent the result of years of experience in designing and construction on the part of the, Company's engineers

The new engines have a wheel arrangement nat previously used in Canada, with four wheels in the leading truck, six 74 inch drivi wheels and four wheels in the trail- The weight of the en- of the nds, while

two is 01 foot.

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MIGHTY BRIDGE.

Faith in Canada's northern areas of resource becomes a reality in the Canadian Pacific bridge at Nipawin, Saskatchewan Designed to take the heaviest locomotives. likely to be bullt, this magnificent structure, A little more than 1,907 feet long. pany the Saskatchewan River at a point leading from the more do- Geitely agricultural section into timber and mining districts of: recognised magnitude. It will alford ready access to still further farm lands, and direct transportn tion possibilities for those who will explore and develop mineral-ex- panses rich in promis

Among the major operations of the Canadian Pacific Railway-for the year 1929, the Nipawin Bridge, begun in

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Lake Moraine, and Valley of the Tari Picks.

The

the Vancouver, in Vancouver, give connected by a passageway, the voyager from the Orient his hotel has 405 guest rooms, of which first glimpse of the shore-service of 220 have private baths and in addi- the company which operates the tion had a number of private suites White Empress of the Pacific. He as well as the luxurious vice-regal will find them in every way as typi suite, while many of the ordinary cal in hospitality, courtesy and guest rooms may be arranged into service and a meet threshold for suites of conveniently varying sizes. his entry into the vast system of The Gold Roof, Oak Grill Room, railway which is to take him Ballroom, and Convention rooms, through the country. The Royal offer facility for the convenience of York, in, Toronto; the Palliser, in laitors. Calgary, and the Chateau Fron- tenac in Quebec will all offer proof of what can be done to make! the public comfortable in Canada's cities, while the Banff Springs Hotel and the Chateau Lake Louise, in the Canadian Rockles, offer the same standard of accommodation in surroundings of unsurpassed beau

ty.

"Further Development.

Nearing The Rockies. Regina, capital of Saskatchewan, has the Saskatchewan Hotel, and imposing structure of limestone, occupying a central situation in the city just south of beautiful Victoria Its windows command Park. striking views of the parks and ter-lined boulevards of the city' and of the spreading prairies be- "The programme of $50,000,000 yond. With its modern equipment, expenditure in development and im-fine cuisine, and high standard of provement of the Canadian Pacifle service, it is a most delightful Rafway during 1080 Includes shopping place for those desiring to $3,500,000 for hotels. This will rest for a time in the heart of cover the addition of 154 rooms to Canada's great west. The Saskat- the "Royal York Hotel at Toronto.chewan contains 271 guest rooms twin erection of a laundry and power cach with private bath and house at the Empresa Hotel, beds. It holds at the disposal of Victoria, continued improvements guests a number of beautifully de- to the Royal Alexandra Hotel, corated special suites. The Spanish Winnipeg, a new golf club house at Tea Room and Spanish Lounge are A Banff, staff quarters and other popular foatures and there la

for buildings, a new hotel at Kentville, handsome Convention room N.S., another new hotel to be public assemblies, erected at Yarmouth, N.S., later in the year, in conjunction with other Interests, and a new golf course to be laid out at the Fines Hotel, Digby, N.S.

Within sight of the Rockies, Calgary has the Palliser Hotel, a community centre where the strang- er can observe the west in its most colourful aspect. The hotel is The Canadian Pacific Railway is located at a point whence the allur also an hotel company and its hotel ing blue outlines of the Rockies can investment alone constitute it one bo seen in the distance above the of the largest of its kind in the roofs of the city.